The Sun. — London, England, 1808-10-25 00:00:00

, . _, barrier which the fear of power of other nations,im. poses on the ambition 'of all, ancl:ever.y thing must give way to the . inordiniti.epasions of that Ruler who wields the physical energies of the colossal nation • whom : he may,chance to govern. He destroys even the happiness of the very people who a) - 6 - refaxEe servile instruments•to graiify.loslust of.oonquest„and domination. Every thing which opposes the will of • • the Conqueror, whether internally as red'ards hig-own people, or,externally as regards the it:habitants . .. Of , other Countries, must be prostrated to his purposes of enslaving over his the world. The 'desire of lording it kl44: 77 creatures, added to the vanity of sur .Passiug i,a power all former conquerors * will cause every this & valuableamong men to bead before him. Lli gion,.•lfherty, laws, morals—must all be made aubservient to his,doininant heart-corrupting passion, however repugnpt it May be to the mild doctrines of Christianity, the pure dietates of justice and truth, or the sound and established maxims of rea son and experience. •" . Knowing the dangerous conseqnences which would • result to human happiness from the destruaion of the balance of power (that phantom, as Mr. Sef fersou's Paper impiously , calls it), all nations, in all ages of the world, 'have shewn such a jealous sensi bility on the subject, that they_have.cheerfully put at hazard every thing valuable among men, to preserve it from the grasp of any wicked or aspiring indi vidual, or combination of men. lii all States, 'both ancient and modern, we find. nations becoming al ternately friends or foes, as this vital principle of t heir being was likely to be affected by the over grown power of any one. Nothing but corruption, or the force of perverse and blind passions, could ever make men insensible to this fundamental prin ciple of national policy. It was reserved for Mr. Jefferson, and. other disciples of the new philo'sophy, in dare to promulgate a contrary doctrine iu the lace of their insulted and menaced country. ' Nothing- shews more clearly, ,the hollow preten , *ions of our Administration to liberty, republicanism, and the rights of men and of nations, than the side they have taken (through their Wilda!" Gazettes) in • favour of Buonaparte against the Spanish Patriots. betrayed by that, Traitor, the Prince of Peace, into alliance with France, Spain has profusely shed her blood and treasure to aid (as.she was vainly taught to Velieve) " the common cause of both nations,"., for a course Of..thirteen years. , Alter having exhausted conquest oh the Continent, the ungrateful and trea-. cherous Corsican turns fits arms against his " dear fr!end and ally," in order to placeibis creature, bro ther, oo the throne. It is for this pious.purpoSe that he is determined to stied torrents of human blood— it is to prevent their becoming hewers of wood and carriers of Water to King Joseph Napoleon, that the whole Spanish nation has taken up arms--deter- rained to live free or die. It was the horrid mas sacres on the 2d of May last, Madrid, of their Countrymen, friends, and relatives, by the ferocious and bloody Murat, "which lighted the torch in the bosom Of every Spaniard, man, woman, and child, A flame of indignant patriotism has burst forth from the long- continued and SysteMatic cruelties and atro cities of Buonaparte; which will not be quenched till their dear native land is purged - of hex merciless invaders. If ever a nation had a just cause of war, the Spanish Patriots have in their pre.ent contest with the Emperor of France. They. were goaded almost to_ desperati on b y the most Unheard-of exactions and h eart - rending oppressions 'inflicted on them for, a series of y ears by domestic traitors, who had sold themselves to the Vi ews of t h e C ors i can in enslaving their country *• bid • From a sentiment of loyalty to their King, but more frot poison being given them mV wholesome food by his infernal favoUrite, the hince of Peace,' did they suffer. in sullen silence all e wrongs which were heaped upon them:. The °Pyressions of their own Government they bore • with a , perhap s , a - criminal apathy ; but the moment • kidnappedwiles, the tative Royal Family, and drenched the . . streets of thiir capital with the best blood of 'heir fellow-citizens, to place his Prefect Joseph to over them, that , moment did the whole Spanish aseleEtrified by the holy tire of patriotism, rise . 0 ,, . -c man to avenge the cause of their outraged ..cennt • b r Y , and struggle to break the heavy•yoke which t e i gn e k ea prei..,ared for them in the person tool of Greatliangd'i7" was to be the mere and ßrav e and heroic sons o f Ib er i a , ever y generous nobl e of our nature is enlisted in your P cause, may your magnanimous efforts h ri " the ir cau se a nd crow use et suffering and degraded humanity, hav e ea With the most complete success. You pat; Your f riends; the virtuous and good of all 1"s- ' a nd Your enemies- are to be found among these 0-i • - b ove lin g glitterinff reptiles-whom a servile fear or the prospect s of reward have ranged on the Side of the Monster. who seeks to enslave -- you! Go ar generous Sp an i ar d s, f or t h e eyes o f t h e un i verse e upon ybu—looking w i t h anx i ous so li c i tude. O n snecessful prowCss of your arms in this mighty onilia, hangs, suspended, the of the world. EDERALISM TRIUMPHANT IN CAROLINA. TRACT OE A LETTER FROM NEWBERN, 'N. C. TO A G ENTLEMAN IN BALTIMORE, DATED AUG. 13. A . " Our elealion has - proved in favou r o f our f r i en d, 1e " r • St,aul e y, for Congress, a majo r ity over Black lo"„g''„of 25. In our Stat e L eg i s l ature, M r. Gras a majority of 56 over Mr. Ti s d a l e . C o l one l *)ve r A . ran, had a majority of seven in the county, that the' Bry an . I h ave just t i me to inform you, L 'r es s s ige three succ ess f u l F e d era li sts were prou dl y ted throUgh the town in a long-boat, ship eci. old Captain Jacob Cook attending as Com .-.9.d°l"P---1-luzza for Free Trade !" , t Accounts from the Hi g hl an d s o f P er th s hi re sta t e ; ``,'at thtt : idevastation. occas i one d in t h at quarter on tGe night of the 15th instant, by a sudden and tre- Nendous gale ( of wind, was never equalled. It tore 11 1). from the roots whole clumps of aged trees, that served, for more than a century back, to add to the natural beauties of Taymouth Castle, the elegant Seat of as she Earl of 'BREADALBANg. Many fine riericed the same later plantations in other parts of the country expe ' stacks and several houses and corn were literally levelled with the ground. It is rem. arkable that the gale seemed to be confined add, iln a compass of twenty miles. We lament to ztrods that s everal poor persons were hurled under the of their huts. t CAI,CUTTA, FEB. to, doB. SU COURT.—On Friday last, being the second day of the Sittings of the Supreme COurt, a very interesting and curious cause came on, re specting two Lottery Tickets in the Second Town Hell Lottery, one of which had been. drawn a prize of 20,000 Sicca rupees, and the other a prize of 1000 Sicca rupees. The parties were— lan) AND Wlt? V. s. oitEENWA4g. This was a bill filed by : the Plaintiff to recover the two tickets above-mentioned,' on the ground, that 'be had giVen a commission to the Defendant, and had supplied him . with funds, to purchase four undrawn tickets - for him; and alleging, that this had been done, that the above were two of the tickets thus purchased, and. were his property. The circumstances were nearly ai follow :—The Defendant had purChased some tickets, two of which be sold to the Plaintiff, at too rupees each, when' the price of tickets was 125 rupees; one of which, in the course of the few first days draWing, came up a prize of snosrnpees. He carried the priie 03' the house of the Defendant, and requested, that he, the Delentlant, would purchase for him some un drawn tickets with the produce of that prize, which the Defendant agreed to do. When he sent to pur chase the undrawn tickets, he added 100 rupees, with the intention of taking one ticket for himself, not knowing that the price of tickets had risen so high as ISO rupees, at which they then were selling. Four tickets were brought to the Defendant, which -he threw down upon a table before some friends, who happened to be present, tolling them, that he had purchased four tickets, three of which' were for, Captain Reid, and one for himself, and at the same time requesting that some of the party present would seled the ticket ,for him to keep. After se veral of the company had successively drawn one ticket at a time from the four, putting it back at each trial, and one of the four 'had been drawn twice, it was proposed that this ticket should be kept; but a different ticket having been drawn at the third trial, some of the company proposed that the latter should be kept ; when,- to Please all par ties, the Defendant resolved to venture t 'tickets,' and that both should be kept ; winch was agreed to; and the Defendant. accordingly sent for an.addi- . tional ticket ; -which being brought, he- immediate - ly sent it, with two others, to . the Plaintiff, aceom panied with the baiatiCe in cash of the 500 rupee prize; which he had received tmin the Plaintiff. .These three tickets, and the balance, making up the amount of the sod rupee prize, were aCcepted end kept by the plaintiff. Several conversalions, re speCting this transaction took place, on different oc casions, in which the Defendant mentioned to the Plaintiff and others, that he had purchased four tickets at that time, and had kept one Of, theta for himself. No objection, however, was made to this transaction, until lour days afterwards, when .they . ticket, which had been twice drawd from the four, and seleded for the Defendant, as above described, came up a prize 420,000 rupees. The Plaintiff then made an apphcation for this ticket to the De fendant, through his Attorney, alledging, that be had given the Detendant a commission to purchase four tickets for him, which had been done; that this j was one of them, and that it was his property ; but • even then made no demand for the other ticket, which had been selected at the same time, and which afterwards came up a prize of 1000 rupees, . Atter having heard many learned and ingenious arguments from the Counsel on both sides, during • the sittings of Friday and Saturday, the'Hon. Chief justice, Sir HENRY RUSSELL, and his Learned Col . leagues, the Hon. Sir JoHN RoyDS,and the Hrin. Sir WILLIAM BURROWS, were unanimously of opi nion, that this was an ingenuous, lair, and honour able transaction on the part of the Defendant, and that the Plaintiff had no right whatever to parti cipate in any share of the produce of these fortunate tickets; and the bill was accordingly dismissed with costs. GREGSON AND CRlB.—This morning the grand match between these pugilists was to be decided, but it was not known where, yesterday afternoon, and the reported scene of Action , was Harlowbush,in Essex, and Blackwater, in appShire ; though it might probably not be' at either. The match is for 500 guineas, and precise belting -is five to four on Crib. Farmer, who was to have fought Young :Belcher'in'the same ring, has paid forfeit ; but Crop-• ley was instantly backed in the roan of Farmer, for 501. and be will contend with .Belcher. On this battle six and seven to four is betting on Belcher. The third fight will be between George Maddox, the veteran bruiser of the ord school, who' has woii and lost, for the last 30 years, about that number of battles, and Richnian the Black. This battle will be fdr a purse, and Richman is the favourite, although Maddox beat hinreasily four years since. RAGLEY HALL, WARWICKSHIRE.—The festivities at this most noble domain, belonging - to the Marquis of HERTFORD, during the Christmas recess, are ex peeled to excel any thing of the kind ever witnessed there./ The preparations will blend Old English. hospitality with princely splendour. For the accom modation of the Prince of WALES, 'who has been invited to pass the holidays, great preparations are making there. 'Among the company expe&ed are the Marquis and Marchioness of DOWNSHIRE, Earl ,and Countess MOIRA, Sir JOHN and Lady THROG MORTON, Lord and*Lady GEORGE SEYMOUR, Lord HENRY MOORE ? Earl of YARMOUTH, &C. FETE AT WOOLLEY PARK.—A most elegant Ball. and Supper were given by G. W. WENTWORTH, Esq. at Woolley Park, near Wakefield,. to a nume rous party of the neighbouring Nobility and Gentry. Dancing commenced about,ten o'clock ; and through the elegant suite of apartments, in the centre of which was a sele6t band, about 70 couples tripped it on the light fantastic toe. Supper was announced about two o'clock, and every delicacy of the season was served up in the greatest profusion. .Dancing was resumed about three, and continued to a very late hour. The lawn in front of the house was lighted with patent lamps, and the windows were all ornamented with beautiful transparencies. In deed this was one of the'most splendid fetes that has been given in this part of the country for many years. Married, at Malta, on the 16th of August last, B. G. ROUVIERE, Esq. to Miss FRANS6'ES HENRI' E?TA NASH. rPitairCR4FT; 211U2pE11, & CREDULITY. An . irtful and:villaiqopsploti accompanied by the most unprecedenii.d instances of credulity that ever engaged puk)lit ,Rttentiou, way yesterday developed before the l'lasistrates, at the Itotation-Office in this town. 'he parties were Mary Bateman, of Camp field, pear this town, and Perigo and his wife, of,Bravpley she the witch, and they the dupes. It appeared„ that in ,August, 1806,. an application was made to4his.woman by Perigo to cure his wife of a ,complaint .which was not stated on the examina. tion, but which we 'guppose to ,be ,what, is . called amongst people of her rank " nervous,';: and amongst their' betters, " the hip."--Mary, ,with becoming lithriesty, declined to undertake the cure herself; but said, that she had a f . riend at Scarbria!„ a Miss Blyth, who could " read the stars,". and coiled from them the knowledge requisite to remove all corporeal, and mental maladies, and, as a preliminary step, required, that Perigq's. wife - should send her flannel petticoat to Miss.Blyth, in order that she might, from that article of dress colleCta knowledge..of her disorder. The petticoat was sent, and a propitious answer re, turned, wherein it was required, that the medium, Mary Bateman, through which all communication betwixt the astrologer and the patient was. to be made, should have four guinea, notes ,preseuted to her, and she was in return to give Perigo tour other guinea *notes, inclosed in a small bag, into which, if either his own curiosity, or the still. stronger cu riosity of his wife, should induce them to,look, the charm would.he broken, and sudden. death mould be ihe consequence. Strange as it may appear, the wife of Perigo never looked. into the enchanted bag to the day of lier.death.—Soon after the four guineas had been given to Mary Bateman, a letter arrived from Scarbro', direaing that another guinea should be.paid into her hands. Similar requests were re peated and 'complied with, till forty guineas had been thus extorted from these infatuated people, un der a promise, however, that they should, by and by, be all Owed to open the bags, and these bags, they were told, would be found to contain all• the money they had advanced. 'About six monrhs bad now expired, and the bu siness of fraud and delusion still went on. Miss Blyth could not, while certain planetS.rpled, sleep on her own bed ; and in order to promote the comfort of the " wise woman," Perigo was to buy her a• new. *d,_ with all the necessary appendages, and send it to Mary 4atenian,' through , whose hands it was to be transmitted to the nymph of Scarbro'. The bed, &c. which cast eight pounds, we're bought, and motes, to the amount of thirty pounds more, paid at .various times into . the hands of the impostor. Un bounded in •her extortions, she next demanded a set of china ; this was also furnished to her ; but she complained that the tea cannister was not sufficient ly, handsome to set before the genteel company. kept by a lady, of her distinaion, and demanded a tea caddie in. its stead; which demand was also com plied with. Perigo and his wife, thus drained of all she mos ney they had in the world, and all the sums thei'r former good credit had enabled them to raise, and the wife's health still growing worse rather than better, they became impatient to look into ,rys terious, bags, and extra& from them the wealth they contained. Their clamorous impatience pro, bably became troublesome, w hen, as it should seem, to silence their importunity, Mrs. Bateman received, as she said, a packet from Scarbro' ; this packet contained a powerful harm, which was to be mixed up in a pudding, tO;'be prepared for the purpose, and of which Perigo and his wife were to eat, but on no account to allow any person to partake with them. They did eat—and there is but too much reason to suppose, that this °vile ,woman had said shall surely d in herself, ;" in the day you eat thereof, you h The husband ate sparingly ; he did not like the taste; but his ill-fated wife, less scrupulouS, ate freely. They both became sick al most immediately, and continued in the most de plorable situation for twenty-four hours: the wife lost .the use of her limbs, and, after. languishing five days,- died on the 24011 May, 1807, a victim of credulity. Perigo recovered partiatiy ; but from that time to the present has never had the perfect use of his limbs. Part of the pudding was, by way of experiment, given to a cat,. and it died ; some fowls also picked up ether parts of it, and shared the same tate. Conte-ary to the direCtion of Mary Bateman., Perigo applied to a Surgeon in this town for advice, 'and was told by him' that he had taken poison, but fortunately not in a. quantity sufficiently large to occasion his death. _After the death of his wife, it is natural. to sup,. pose that the husband would have possessed suffi cient fortitude .to enlitncipate .himself lions the fangs of this wicked•wornan ; this 'however, was not the case ; she had thrown her toils over him, and though the wife might not have been, as she sup posed, bewitched, ; it is pretty evident the husband was under *some such influence. From May, 1807, till 'Wednesday last, the charm continued to ope rate, and the spell . could not be dissolved.—At One 'time he went to Manchester by the dire6tion. of this Jeiebel ; at another he sent her one of his wife's gossips ; again she contrived to coax or frighten him out of another gown, a petticoat, and the family Bible ! And last of' all she demanded from him half a bushel of wheat, with three seven shilling pieces inclosed. His creditors at length be came impatient, and the hopes of getting any parr of his property back failing, he determined to brave all danger, and look into the mysterious bags—but what must have been hii surprise and vexation to find that the contents of these bags were not worth one penny ! ! and to find himself a pauper, without property, and with a ruined constitution. The bubble now burst ; and . after having kept the business an entire secret from every soul living, his wife alone excepted, for upwards of two years, ..he laid his hopeless case before some of his neigh bours; by their •direetion Mary Bateman was ap prehended ; when brought before the Magistrates, site in part confessed her delinquency, and admitted that there was no such person as Miss Blyth in existence, b u t t h at t h e w h o l e was a mere p h antom, conjured up to forward her vile purposes. The Ma gistrates have 'committed the offender to the House of Corretaion, whether to be tried for swindling practces, or to be removed from there to the Coun ty Gaol, to take he trial for wilful murder, we are not informed. • 03 searching the house of this woman, (who has a kwbalid az *everol and and MC •,, other articles, the property oftrtn, grno;int..- ing in vaine . to:abnpt, ten or, twelve pt,Lnics, %vett; ionn.d, and will be resfored It. is wOrthi, of .iii).st2rVition, .that Mary ,gaternort the person hen . la-id an • - egg 'about ty,ro ye.trs ago, lit the Bank. in this town, beallng this toarveiloo,s,, - Inscription;. " Crist is coming."—.—* (Leeds Nercury „Oct. 22) THE Ajl3lY . Horse Guards, oa. A General. Court Martial has been held at Plp mouth Pock,. on Lieutenzu - it Tilomas Layton, and Lieutenant and Paymaster James Nooth, both be, longing to the Purset Regiment.of upon-the • two undermentioned charges, viZ. ist Charge. For .fienaving Seandalous.and int , mots manner, such as was .unbceoruig the . character of 0 ire and Gentlemen, by beating and fighting Ensign "Fay of 114 , said regiment,. in'the Mess Itboin, at Iti Jig's tracks, on or about the 27th of lloVerrintr, 1806, to the prejudice of good order and military ni., , eipithe.. • • . •. • • . 2d Charge, agant,t Lieutenant Thomas Layton e r?niy, for having at several times, and . particularly on or the (tit at January . ; 18 8, abused and slandered the e!iarac;fer 6t SUr geon Charles Mastertnini El:naing, or- the Dorse t R. Fg e e . :Li e of Militia, by declar;ng to several oiric.ers bcnoning,Jo the said regiment, that he was a dunned rascal, - a fellow ; a villain; and a coward, thereby endeavouring to rav 6 radc and injure the said Surgeon Henning., . . , Upon, which charges the Court came to the follow, ing decision, namely, that after hattrn*,-, maturely: considered.the whole of, the evideoc.4 Loth !or '.ant! against the. Prisoners, Lietticoant I.!yton and Lieutenant and Pdyrnapier Nyoth, that they ate notluilty of- the first .c,lt - ge, does therefore acquit them aecotchtgly, because it appears to the Court that Lieutenant Ttiomas,l„tv. , ei acted in ,self defence, and that Lieutenant Paytusster booth only interfered as a mediator. With respea to the second charge, the Court, . under all. the circumstances, does likewise hod that Lieet.Thontas Layton is not guilty ; therefo;e it quits him of the same also.. .The Court is further of" opinion; that the Prosisutor, Surgeon (7renning; ith bringing f i r ward at this tithe thefirstciier l ;e, after st long a perntd had elapsed. and more espeeilly so, as he well knew the ,tiolortunate business alluded . 'to therein, had been settled by Lieutenant 'Colon, 1 Phi; who commanded the regiment of the Dorset when the affair, was investigated, and.who hoc; cha~t~i an example of one, of the party; and as Stich 'settle,. -ment "was .sanctioned and approved of by .the .Ninjor General of the Brigade, • and the I;eutenant Gerl ral who then commanded in the .Western it was by. no means any,part of Surgeon Bennifig'e duty to, have interfered; he not heiug .checei,ird therein ; the Court, cannot but coesi , ler hi , n, the! said Surgeon Henning; to have been aetuated, in this instance, by nialicions motives: , His Majesty ha,ving,beete_pliaicd to a p prcv.' and confirm the sentence of the cowl in atlei, ling the prisoners ; and at ,the' same tine after having taken into serious consideration the .opinion of the' Cou:1 with regard to the conduet..of the pros:x.o.l)r, Sur- . goon Henning, has commanded that it may be )0- timated to - him, as it appears he was Ouated by malicious motives, he does .tfot consider him to Lc' a fit I)c.'rsOu to r , 2:n.Liln 3' longer in his service. Fiji Royal Highues; Inc Commander in Chief 1)3,1* therefore direaed that it may besommunicated to Surgeon ,Charles Ninsterrnan Hennings, of the Dor set Regiment of Militia, that his Majesty has not any further occasion for his services ; and has likewise requested to be iplortted of the day on whith the same is made known to him, as from that period he will cease receiving pay in his MejeSty's service. (Signed) FREDERICK, Comein Chief: ED/A - BURGH, 0 c Tos R O. COURT OF lUSTICI A RY. Some . .time- ago an, action was raised, ; at the in stance., of his Majesty's AdvoCate,, agaiivt .several journeymen paper-makers, for entgring,into an We till combination or conspir.tcy ,compel their mas tersts to raise their wages. An •objeCtion against the relevancy of the libel having been 7 ,tart, by the Counsel for the panneis, the Coul . t . 'urci 7 red rials, and , yesterday their Lortlglin , S; zifer having Maturely considered the case, and del vered Oen . opinions, pronounced an inierlibr, finding the indictment not relevant as laid. • Tile s paktiels were therefore dismissed from the bar: The whole of their i:Jordsiips were present. 1401t1S - ARNIADE.LE and ME . ADOWBANK supported the relevancy of the libel, and Vvithtlietn - the LORD JUSTICE (iLplix eurred iu opinion; while Lords Cit.: , ,4t;', CULI.E.N, and HERMAtsiD, spoke against it. . Their Lordships delivered their Sentinients at great - length, and in such a manner as evinced the deep attention they had bestowed on a 'subject of such vast importance to tb interests of the community. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. STIRLING AND CALEDONIAN HUNT MEETING. LIONOAY, OCT. !O. The King's Plate of loogs.,for lwrses, &c. I2St. Four- mile heats. Sir H. T. Vane's b. in. Rose, by Sir Peter, 5 yrs old Mr. Storey's b. m. Cramlington, 5 yrs old - z Mr. Dunies br. h. Bustard, 5 yrs old - dis. TUESDAY. Fifty Guineas for three-yr olds. Two mile heats. Mr.' Cumming's b. t. by Humbletonian Mr.•Bates's ch. c. by Stride - Lord Monty:merles b. f. Benningbrough WEDNESDAY. Fifty Guineas for 411 ages, Four mile'lleats. I I 3 2 2 3 Alt.'Storeyi b: h. CrairiihngtOil, by Pipator. walked Over. THURSDAY. Fifty Guineas for all ages. Four mile heats. Mr.-Thomson's b. h. by Bumper, 5 yrs old - Mr. Baitd's ch. h. Fox, aged . Z 1 1 (ii. The toogs for horses, &t: Four mile heats. Sir H. T. Vane's b. m. Rose, by Sir Peter, 5y r 4 old 1 t Ld belliaven's b. c. Sting, 4 yrs old - - - zdi SHREWSBURY HUNT. The weather was not so tavourable as.was desirable, there having been, more or less, an almost continual droppi ng o f rain. The Race on Riclon Heath, Thursday, for a 7, ui fleas Sweepstakes given by the Members of the Itunt,,wa* a well.contested one; the horses cam.: in as tallow: Mr.. Lister's b. rn. by Telescope Mr. Gorbet's b. g. by Regulus Mr. Whip - nore's ch. g. by Regulus - 3 •A pair of hares were inclosed by Lord R1833t.W. DALE for a year, when the offspring . 41 - noqiited to 68. A pair of rabbits, inclosed lor the same period, the offspring about 300. The value of rabbits' W 05 ., used annually in the matitifaCturg of 444, stated at p0,,Q9P1. i 1 i~